You protect what you love. What you judge too easily, often, you can’t really, deeply, truly love, or it does get too clouded and smothered by the judging. Our knowledge, our education and the conceit we derived from it has led us to judge the planet too much. We decree…

A few years ago, when the first papayas grew on one of the trees that we’d planted early on at the farm, we decided to “play farmer” and sell it. We realized the local “agent” price for it would be roughly a fourth of what the market price of papaya…

(or 10, or 20, or 200, or 4000 — whatever it is that the last stock market or Bitcoin rally or recent IPO made you!) With all the absurd action in the financial markets, crazy (and inexplicable) valuations, there’s a fair bit of money being made by many folks, including…

Just came across the brilliantly compiled and narrated 3 part series from Unscripted that connects the dots from the focus on industrialisation and neglect of the village economy (ignoring Gandhi’s suggestions and focus), to the myths that led up to the Green Revolution, to the horribly short sighted, 1st order…

As we reach out to try getting a larger mainstream to adopt planet friendly farming, rewilding, regenerative and at least not-destructive production and supply chains and localized production-consumption loops, the question of marrying this to the markets and industry is ever alive. Indeed the focus is to get more to…

दफ़न करो सब जो गुज़र गया चलो, आगे की सोचें दफ़न वो सब जो बिखर गया क्यों सतह खरोंचें? जल जाये ओझल हो जाये जो भी जी झंझोले मौन के कुछ पल हो जाएं फिर मौक टटोलें ? क्यूंकि सबकी हार में ही कुछों की जीत है चिताओं पे हाथ…